FlySanDiego: a web-aware 3D interactive regional information system

David S. Lukas; Michael J. Bailey

doi:10.1117/12.458806

12 March 2002 FlySanDiego: a web-aware 3D interactive regional information system

David S. Lukas, Michael J. Bailey

Proceedings Volume 4665, Visualization and Data Analysis 2002; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458806
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2002, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Communication of regional geographic information to the population as a whole should be a municipal priority, but sadly it is not. From traffic patterns to weather information to emergency information to proposed highways, a city or county has, in electronic form, all of this useful information and more. With the ubiquity of web browsers and the arrival of online 3D graphics technologies such as VRML and Java 3D,this information could and should be made available. By using Java andJava3D, the rendering power of an OpenGL-type application can be combined with multithreading, allowing a program to invisibly access data sets from Internet sites with dedicated threads while processing user interaction with another. Any type of relevant data can be transformed into a three-dimensional interpretation and mapped over the terrain that the user is analyzing. This prototype is designed to be extremely extensible and expandable in order to accommodate future revisions and/or portability. This paper discusses the issues surrounding the creation of such a model, along with challenges, problems, and solutions.

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David S. Lukas and Michael J. Bailey "FlySanDiego: a web-aware 3D interactive regional information system", Proc. SPIE 4665, Visualization and Data Analysis 2002, (12 March 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458806

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